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...conformational change in the GPCR causing the activation of the Gα subunit. The activated Gα exchanges bound GDP...PRESTO-TANGO (parallel receptorome expression and screening via transcriptional output - TANGO) (Kroeze...Kroeze et al., 2015). PRESTO-TANGO uses a modified Tango beta-arrestin recruitment assay to measure receptor...Sassano MF, Huang X-P, Lansu K, McCorvy JD, Giguère PM, Sciaky N, Roth BL (2015) PRESTO-Tango as an open-source...examples with plasmids deposited at Addgene.  PRESTO-TANGO: The ligands that activate many GPCRs are still ...for unknown GPCRs. You can find the entire PRESTO-TANGO kit at Addgene! TRUPATH: Bryan Roth’s lab also assembled... internalization of two different receptors- angiotensin II type 1 receptor and the β2 adrenoceptor. ...

...most common diseases. References Zhang Y, Yin C, Zhang T, Li F, Yang W, Kaminski R, Fagan PR, Putatunda...publication at Addgene. Wang Z, Pan Q, Gendron P, Zhu W, Guo F, Cen S, Wainberg MA, Liang C. CRISPR/Cas9-Derived...integrated HIV-1 genome. For a targeted approach, Zhang et al. turned to the CRISPR/Cas9 Synergistic Activation...and p65) to enhance transcriptional activation. Zhang et al. designed multiple gRNAs to target the 5’ ... in the T-cell line 2D10. PCR amplification and Sanger sequencing of pooled samples showed that most of...Shortly after Kaminski et al. published their results, Wang et al. showed that HIV-1 could escape from CRISPR...mutations were located near the Cas9 cut site, leading Wang et al. to conclude that some Cas9-derived indels...

...large changes in binding affinity with light stimulation. Indeed oLID showed only a two-fold change in affinity...variant of PSmOrange, a photoswitchable fluorescent protein which transitions from emitting orange (λ= 565nm...response regulator. These changes reduced system leakiness and increased the dynamic range, resulting in more... and a mostly c-terminal nuclease domain. Feng Zhang's group utilized the bi-lobed architecture of Cas9...constructs or as the fully assembled pMemoryArray.   Yang et al., Nat Methods 2014 Dec;11(12):1261-6. doi:...order to determine the relationships between pH changes and cellular events. To overcome the issues with... of varying fusion protein expression levels. Zhang et al., PLoS One. 2012;7(8):e43072. doi: 10.1371...

...identify how MagLOV’s structure changes under magnetic field. Such changes could be harnessed or enhanced...proteins. Motivated by curiosity Although a wide range of fluorescent proteins and optogenetic tools exist... good ol’ EGFP — showed a slight but detectable change in fluorescence when a small magnet was passed ...Fluorescence intensity of EGFP-FlavinTag in E. coli changes in response to a ~25 mT magnet. Gray regions indicate...could be expressed and purified. Although a ~1% change in signal might not make a very powerful tool, ... Q513K, G528K, D540M) that shows a fluorescence change of ~75% in response to the magnetic field (Figure...MagLOV-based tools, just as light-induced conformational changes are the basis of many optogenetic tools. And, since...

... consists of NLuc fused to the more penetrative orange fluorescent protein fusion (OgNLuc). Both fluorescent...for excitation. The result was the cyan-excitable orange fluorescent protein, CyOFP1. CyOFP1 was molecularly...and improved maturation time compared to similar orange fluorescent proteins. In their work, the authors...great imaging tools generate cyan, yellow, green, orange and red fluorescence. The paper reports a wide ...Plasmid #85199), Yellow (YeNL; Plasmid #85201), Orange (OeNL; plasmid #85202) and Red (ReNL; plasmid #85203...When the responsive protein binds to calcium it changes conformation and brings the two fluorescent proteins...sought to alleviate many of these challenges by exchanging the fluorescent donor for a bioluminescent donor...

...and Types of Edits with Low-Cost Sanger Sequencing   ICE uses Sanger sequencing data to produce quantitative...tools. For example, we examined ICE analysis of Sanger sequencing data alongside the analysis of NGS-based...sequencing. To use the tool, you start by uploading your Sanger sequencing files, either one at a time or as a ...targeted gene.   Analyze Complex Edits   Traditional Sanger sequencing-based analysis tools are unable to detect...unedited (control) populations is PCR-amplified and Sanger sequenced. ICE compares these sequence traces to...software tool is quick and easy. Simply upload your Sanger sequencing files and provide basic information ...file. On the plot, the green (edited sample) and orange (control sample) lines should be close together...

...medium. Daily medium exchanges help alleviate cellular stresses associated with pH changes and resource consumption... ion channels, and growth factors resulting in changes to the cell line’s growth and behavior. Signs of...In addition to benefitting your cells, medium exchanges may also impact the quality of the lentiviral ...harvest. Studies have demonstrated that extreme changes in osmotic pressure and pH can destabilize the ... receptor to infect cells and have a broad host range. However, viruses pseudotyped with other envelope... To overcome this issue, try transducing with a range of dilutions of your lentiviral prep. Hopefully,...conditions for specific applications, stick with them! Changes in such variables as cell density, volume, incubation...

...proteins change configurations or binding partners, the epitopes available for binding change as well....often change shapes and epitope accessibility naturally, by binding to other proteins, changing locations...well. If this change hides the epitope that the antibodies used to recognize the protein, your antibody will... you're working with antibodies.) Conformation changes usually fall into one of two categories: ones induced...  First, let’s think about induced conformation changes. Several types of assays, such as ELISAs and Westerns... some of the bonds keeping the protein folded, changing it from its native state to a less folded, or ...the available epitopes in any given protein might change depending on the conditions and the assay can help...

... Habib, N., Hsu, P. D., Wu, X., Jiang, W., Marraffini, L. A., & Zhang, F. (2013). Multiplex genome engineering...complex (blue subunits) with a guide RNA (green and orange) bound to the target DNA with Cas3 (pink). Complex...double-stranded breaks caused by Cas12 create short 3’ overhangs, which leads to slightly increased efficiency ...., Lander, E. S., Voytas, D. F., Ting, A. Y., & Zhang, F. (2017). RNA targeting with CRISPR–Cas13. Nature...Makarova, K. S., Macrae, R. K., Koonin, E. V., & Zhang, F. (2023). Uncovering the functional diversity ... O., Franklin, B., Kellner, M. J., Joung, J., & Zhang, F. (2017). RNA editing with CRISPR-Cas13. Science...., Zhou, X., Hou, Z., Lozen, M. L., Nam, K. H., Zhang, Y., & Ke, A. (2024). Exploiting activation and ...

...dynamic range of your FRET assay (Figure 2). These labeling methods are freely interchangeable and new... Central PMCID: PMC26749. 9. Ni, Qiang, Denis V. Titov, and Jin Zhang. "Analyzing protein kinase dynamics...1999), monitoring kinase activity (Ni, Titov, & Zhang, 2006), quantifying antibody/antigen interactions...Saraheimo et al., 2013), and visualizing structural changes in the ribosome during protein translation (Ermolenko...protein mass into your protein and so structural changes due to this bulky insertion are inevitable. Most... a problem, as long as they are beyond the FRET range of the donor (i.e. >100 Å). Researchers have developed... above can be paired together to measure a wide range of molecular distances (see Table). However, proper...

...transcriptional changes. Using this road map, and what was known about previously characterized TFs, the Zhang group...interest to the scientific community. Recently, the Zhang lab generated a TF library (aka the MORF Collection...unique isoforms transcribed from these sites. The Zhang lab generated a comprehensive library of each unique...human TF can contribute to differentiation, the Zhang lab transduced human embryonic stem cells with the... is a useful finding. Transcriptional program changes from this screen successfully differentiated cells...each TF help streamline identification. While the Zhang lab controlled their multiplicity of infection so... transformation and amplification, refer to the Zhang lab’s previously published protocol and its relevant...

...bacteria Article contributed by Will Arnold Baojun Wang’s lab recently developed a CRISPR tool for the specific...called the upstream activating sequence (UAS). The Wang Lab created a tripartite system consisting of dCas9...other bEBP/UAS pairs, and displays high dynamic range. However, the promoter in question must be σ54-dependent... Genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) change fluorescence in real time when neurons or muscle...technical difficulties such as small fluorescence changes or a requirement for very high excitation light...to work with.  The Gottschalk lab has surveyed a range of microbial rhodopsin GEVIs in excitable cells ... that can be used to monitor real time voltage changes in worms and have made these constructs available...

...reality – a government cannot declare that gravity change direction and make things fly up when we drop them...outcomes are actually possible for a given policy. In exchange, the government protects (and often funds [3])...scientists has been rising as evidence of climate change, the safety of genetically modified organisms (...90% of active research scientists believe climate change is mostly due to human activity while much less...administration’s actions, including taking down the climate change page on whitehouse.gov, freezing grants, and proposing... Agency, and the National Institutes of Health endanger scientists’ ability to uphold their side of the...advocating for science education and literacy that this changes.  2) Lumping all scientists (and consequently their...

... control sample. Southern blotting applications range from confirming the results of cloning or knockout...days of development. Today, researchers use both Sanger and next-generation sequencing techniques to answer...see below). Importantly, although their role has changed, restriction enzymes are certainly not dead yet...next-generation sequencing techniques Introduced in 1977, Sanger sequencing, also known as chain-terminating or ...the order of nucleotides in a string of DNA (7). Sanger sequencing uses modified nucleotides, called dideoxynucleotides... and accessibility led to the widespread use of Sanger sequencing. Building upon this technology, radiolabelled... sequencing techniques do not typically rely on Sanger sequencing but instead use methods like pyrosequencing...

...various teal, green, yellow, orange, and red fluorophores. The spectra for mOrange2 (scaffold of OCaMP) are...signaling throughout the body. Because calcium levels change rapidly during neuronal activity, scientists can...are shaded in orange. Data from FPbase.org. Scientists have developed calcium indicators spanning ...complement these tools, we recently developed a new orange calcium indicator, OCaMP (Aggarwal et al., 2025...2025), based on the fluorescent protein mOrange2 (Figure 2). Figure 2: OCaMP structure and mechanism...CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Why orange? OCaMP’s emission peak at 565 nm fits neatly between...for two-photon imaging with newer lasers in the range of 1000–1080 nm. These industrial fiber lasers are...

...and Screening via Transcriptional Output-TANGO (PRESTO-TANGO) to screen the NCC-1 library of approved .... Cell Rep. 2015. PubMed PMID: 26190106 PRESTO-TANGO: An open-source resource for drug discovery Nearly.... Bryan Roth's lab has a newly available PRESTO-TANGO kit which allows researchers to interrogate the ...publication, Kroeze et al. describe their enhanced TANGO arrestin recruitment assay incorporating 314 codon-optimized...cell line expression. In a twist on the classical TANGO assay, Kroeze et al. developed a new approach termed...discovery. Researchers can use plasmids from the PRESTO-TANGO kit directly for drug screening or easily shuttle... more rapid screening by restriction digest and Sanger sequencing, respectively. The speed and simplicity...

...outside of their natural environment. Thus, the Harris Wang lab at Columbia University developed a method for...both Gram-positive and Gram-negative cells.  The Wang lab further developed a modular suite of plasmids...replicative origins that can be used for broad or narrow range of microbial species. These also contain the RP4... RSF1010 origin, an IncQ origin with broad host-range (Meyer, 2009). The vector retains the oriT for delivery... by conjugation. The labs screened for the host-range of the plasmids and suitability of various antibiotic...designed to study the bee microbiome, these broad-host-range plasmid could also be used to study other microbiome... the toolkit for modular assembly of broad host range plasmids Counting cell division in the gut microbiota...

...register and catalyzes their recombination, thereby changing the state of the RSM. If an attB-attP pair is ...orthogonal attB-attP pairs per recombinase may be arranged on a register (Fig. 1C below). If attB-attP pairs...approach is to interrogate state with qPCR. The re-arrangement of DNA segments in each state of a register enables...methods of state interrogation mentioned above (Sanger sequencing, qPCR, and fluorescent reporter-based...each come with their advantages and disadvantages. Sanger sequencing is simple and the most accurate method...directly reads the state of a register. However, each Sanger sequencing reaction can only be performed on one...or if it requires reading so many registers that Sanger sequencing would be too expensive, then the qPCR...

...physiological conditions. Shyu et al. Biotechniques. 2006 Chang-Deng Hu Green sfGFP Split super-folder GFP...fluorescent protein. Kamiyama et al. Nat Commun. 2016 Bo Huang spGFP Split superpositive GFP Split-superpositive...protein labeling. Feng et al. Nat Commun. 2017 Bo Huang mNeonGreen3 mNG3K(1–10) and mNG3A(1–10) for ...signal amplification. Zhou et al. PLoS One. 2020 Bo Huang Yellow Venus pBiFC-VN173, pBiFC-VC155 Identification...physiological conditions. Shyu et al. Biotechniques. 2006 Chang-Deng Hu Venus Improved N-terminal fragment VN155...-noise ratio. Kodama et al. Biotechniques. 2010 Chang-Deng Hu mVenus pET-BiFC contains both fragments...protein labeling. Feng et al. Nat Commun. 2017 Bo Huang sfCherry3 Improved sfCherry3C(1–10) for use ...

...Wei Y, Liu F, Ying W, Zhang J, Tang C, Zhang X, Xu H, Shi L, Cheng L, Huang P, Yang H (2018) In vivo simultaneous...experiment! References Bikard D, Jiang W, Samai P, Hochschild A, Zhang F, Marraffini LA (2013) Programmable...for each loci, CRISPR/Cas systems only require changing the programmable guide RNA. Gene activation by... histone acetyltransferase domain capable of rearranging chromatin structure. This method has shown higher... Habib N, Gootenberg JS, Nishimasu H, Nureki O, Zhang F (2014) Genome-scale transcriptional activation...